@article {bnh-3466,
	title = {Shared responsibility: the who, what and how},
	journal = {Environmental Hazards},
	year = {2017},
	month = {03/2017},
	abstract = {<p>As natural disasters increase around the world and stretch the\&nbsp;capacities of emergency services, national governments and\&nbsp;international institutions have stressed the importance of shared\&nbsp;responsibility; the idea that all actors within a society have some\&nbsp;obligations in disaster management and must work collectively to\&nbsp;reduce disaster risk. However, the exact balance between\&nbsp;individual and government responsibility is not yet established\&nbsp;and continually contested, especially after major events. In\&nbsp;Australia, the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (NSDR) is\&nbsp;the overarching policy framework for disaster risk management\&nbsp;and aims to create resilient communities through an emphasis on\&nbsp;shared responsibility and empowerment. Through a literature\&nbsp;review and document analysis of the NSDR and associated policy\&nbsp;documents, we clarify, organise and operationalise the necessarily\&nbsp;general policy goal of shared responsibility. We first analyse how\&nbsp;the NSDR conceptualises communities to discover which\&nbsp;community actors are mentioned. We then identify the\&nbsp;responsibilities it prescribes or implies for these different actors\&nbsp;and consider the types of policy instruments that are relevant to\&nbsp;disaster risk management. Our analysis reveals a tension between\&nbsp;the NSDR{\textquoteright}s placement of government at the centre of disaster risk\&nbsp;management, and its other, less well-explained emphasis on\&nbsp;community empowerment.</p>},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2017.1298510},
	author = {Anna Lukasiewicz and Dovers, Steve and Michael Eburn}
}
